Новости за 04.11.2021

Vice President Kamala Harris finally got something half right when she recently said on the campaign trail in Norfolk that “what happens in Virginia will in large part determine what happens in 2022, 2024, and on.”  Indeed, Ms. Harris was spot on in her assessment about the importance of the ...

A Chipotle fast-food outlet in Louisville, Kentucky, temporarily shuttered its doors this week after half of its staff, including the manager, walked out, according to a report. 

It was amazing to watch the results coming in on Tuesday from Virginia and New Jersey. Here are some quick thoughts: 

Although the series “Longmire” ended on Netflix, fans of the modern Western Sheriff Walt Longmire can still read Craig Johnson’s popular crime series of novels where Longmire is still on the job as the sheriff of a fictional Wyoming county. 

Americans increasingly are closing their eyes and opening their ears for their entertainment, says a new study of pandemic-fueled trends.

In the autumn of 2010, I returned to Washington from an overseas tour of duty as a CIA station Chief in central Eurasia. I spent the next four years serving as deputy chief and then chief of the Near East Division in CIA headquarters. Focused on supporting war zones in ...

Thousands of Border Patrol agents could be fired over failing to meet President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees, Arizona’s attorney general warned in a new letter calling on the administration to relax its unprecedented shots-or-else approach.

On May 11, 2021, Dr. Anthony Fauci lied to Senator Rand Paul and Congress about the gain of function experiments his agency funded at a Wuhan bioweapons lab. For that alone, Dr. Fauci belongs in an orange jumpsuit. Yet Dr. Fauci’s far bigger lie is one of omission.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' failure to properly secure a federal firearms destruction facility allowed a contracted security guard to steal guns, thousands of gun parts and ammunition, according to the Department of Justice watchdog.

The Biden administration published a rule Thursday that requires workers at large companies and institutions to get fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or face weekly testing, drawing jeers from business groups who said it will be difficult to implement around the holidays and could exacerbate labor shortages.

LONDON (AP) — Britain has granted a conditional authorization to Merck's coronavirus antiviral, the first pill shown to successfully treat COVID-19. It is the first country to OK the treatment, although it was not immediately clear how quickly the pill would be available.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — OPEC and allied oil-producing countries will decide Thursday how much oil they think the global economy needs, with President Biden urging Saudi Arabia and Russia to increase production and lower U.S. gasoline prices — so far to no avail.

Republicans won Virginia. Republicans shocked New Jersey. Republicans beat down "defund police" movements in Minneapolis. But Republicans must not fall into the oft-GOP trap of forgetting why they won, where they go from here, and to whom they owe allegiance.

PHOENIX — Kyle Larson has heard that mental toughness is required to win a championship. He has no idea if that's true - and if it is required, well, then he doesn't consider himself the championship favorite this weekend.

House Democrats dropped plans for an expansive amnesty for illegal immigrants in their new budget proposal Wednesday, and instead called for a more tentative legal status for illegal immigrants that would block them from deportation but not offer a clear path to citizenship.

The Senate has confirmed Thomas R. Nides of Minnesota to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to Israel.

Students and alumni plan to converge on the Lynchburg, Virginia, campus of Liberty University Thursday to demand administrators take more aggressive action on sex-assault complaints.

SEATTLE — Seattle's downtown business community celebrated Wednesday after the moderate candidates it backed took commanding leads in the races for mayor, city attorney and a key council race over liberals who had called to defund the police.

Will Rogers has quickly developed into the type of quarterback Mike Leach envisioned to run his pass-heavy Air Raid scheme at Mississippi State.

MILWAUKEE — As one of the nation’s top-10 prospects in his class, Patrick Baldwin could have signed with just about any college basketball program in the country.

During three decades of nearly uninterrupted excellence, there were so many Atlanta Braves teams that seemed more championship worthy than this one.

F.P. Santangelo announced Wednesday that he will no longer be the Washington Nationals’ color analyst for the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network.

MILLBURN, N.J. — Phil Murphy held on to win a second term as governor of New Jersey on Wednesday, shaking off President Biden’s sinking approval numbers and late momentum from Republican challenger Jack Ciattarelli in an election that was far closer than Democrats had expected and hurt their down-ballot candidates.

Congressional Democrats are maneuvering to reinsert paid family leave and other far-left priorities into President Biden’s $1.75 trillion social welfare bill, brushing aside moderates’ concerns about the price tag and the risk of provoking the same disagreements that have held up a final deal for months.

Frustrated Democrats blamed each other and President Biden on Wednesday after the party’s devastating losses in Virginia and narrow win for New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy that was supposed to be a cakewalk.